Inner Justice and Courage

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville view, this is not a tale of two brothers, but a drama of inner states. Absalom represents the impulse toward righteous action arising within consciousness after a hurt. Amnon, in his wine-happy moment, illustrates a state where appetite masquerades as justice, a habitual thought that justifies force. The 'servants' are your inner faculties—memory, imagination, will—ready to act when you say the word. The command 'Smite Amnon' is not about harming a person outside you, but about waking the inner you to remove a pattern that feeds revenge. The cry 'fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous' is the I AM within you sustaining a strict, fearless revision of the old script. This is the moment to align your acting self with a higher law, to replace revenge with measured discernment, and to let the new self be valiant in choosing justice over injury. In Neville's practice, the key is to feel that you have already acted justly in imagination, and that the outer event will reflect that inner conviction.